Historical Police Procedural

A wicked Scottish winter has just begun when pioneering female physician Sophia Jex-Blake calls on Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton to investigate the suspicious death of one of her patients - a railroad lineman who she believes succumbed to the horrific effects of arsenic poisoning. The most provocative aspect of the case doesn’t escape Hamilton: the married victim’s numerous sexual transgressions. Now, for the first time since the unexplained fire that killed his parents, Hamilton enters the Royal Infirmary to gain the insights of brilliant medical student Arthur Conan Doyle.

Two years after the firebombing that devastated the historic East German city, the suffering continues in the throes of a brutal winter. The wary and exhausted citizens scramble to survive, wolf packs of orphans scavenge for food, and Detective Max Heller is called to the scene of a savage murder. A Russian officer was stabbed to death, and not far from the frozen corpse is an abandoned backpack containing another man’s severed head.

Quebec, 1994. Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is summoned from Montreal to investigate the murder of a prisoner in an experimental women's jail. He knows the prime suspect - he arrested her. But darker forces are interested in Abigail, and Émile interferes at his own peril. For as he'll soon discover, in Lady Jail, nothing is as it seems.

Albert Beauchamp disappeared just before Christmas in 1856. When he reappears more than a year later, he's in several pieces, packed in salt in a shipping crate in New Orleans. NYC inspectors Jasper Lightner and his partner, Hieronymus Law, are called in to investigate - but the further they dig into the wealthy financier's background, the dirtier the story gets.

1917. The Lotus Hotel offers sanctuary for its exclusively female clientele, attracting the cream of London's society. But a dead body found in one of its rooms is hardly good for business, and when it is discovered that the woman was neither a guest nor a member of staff, the Lotus' reputation as a safe haven is cast in doubt. Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are dispatched to look into the events at the hotel and soon suspect foul play.

A lone German bomber crosses the east coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and, following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. DI Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora Wylde, beside her shattered bed in a terrace house on Elm Street.

Gammon is under immense pressure in his latest quest to find a horrendous serial killer stalking the Peak District. The killings are mounting up, and the pressure that goes with his DCI position with Bixton Police is beginning to tell.

London 1896 – Im Crystal Palace Park stirbt eine Frau unter den Rädern einer neuartigen Motordroschke – ein tragischer Unfall, wie es scheint. Doch Chief Inspector Swanson schöpft Verdacht, denn der Bruder der Toten ist kurz zuvor spurlos und unter mysteriösen Umständen aus dem Gefängnis in Wicklow verschwunden. Als dann unweit der Haftanstalt – in dem kleinen irischen Küstenstädtchen Bray – die verstümmelte Leiche eines seit Monaten vermissten Mannes inmitten okkulter Symbole gefunden wird, haben selbst die irischen Behörden nur eine Erklärung.

It should have been an easy score - a suburban house on a quiet cul-de-sac, with the owners scheduled to be gone all night. But career burglar George Patniks has chosen the wrong time to go breaking and entering, because tonight Harvey Rozier will murder his wife. Patniks is the only witness to the brutal killing, but, of course, he can't go to the police.

The Maze Genealogy Investigators are on the trail of a cold case, following another message from the medium Claire Lewis. A disturbing discovery at a ruined country house and the unearthing of family papers provide the missing clues to the fate of police detective William McRoberts who disappeared without trace in the 1870s. Maggie and Nick travel to Liverpool and North Wales to see if they can crack open the case and finally be able to tell the McRoberts family what happened to their ancestor.

Brighton, 1882: Albert Moscrop spends his holiday peering at beachgoers through a telescope, piecing together disarmingly trivial observations into a compelling drama for his own amusement. A keen student of human nature, Moscrop concentrates his interest on one particular family - the Protheros, especially the beautiful Zena Prothero, whose husband appears to take her for granted. Moscrop gradually moves into the circle of the Prothero family, only to become involved in a sensational murder.

London, 1894. Aus Scotland Yards Schwarzem Museum, einer Sammlung von Mordwerkzeugen, verschwindet ein Ausstellungsstück. Wenig später wird die Leiche eines Freimaurers in einem Schlafwagen auf der Bahnstrecke London - York gefunden. Chief Inspector Donald Swanson - selbst Freimaurer - sieht sich gezwungen, in den Kreisen seiner eigenen Logenbrüder zu ermitteln. Als jedoch am Tatort eines weiteren Verbrechens Fingerabdrücke gefunden werden, wendet sich das Blatt.

Settembre 1988. Un grigio impiegato del Catasto viene ucciso a revolverate mentre è nel giardino della sua villetta, vicina al Parco Lambro. Un tentativo di rapina? Un incidente? Il gesto folle di qualcuno in preda ai fumi della droga? O una vendetta? I trascorsi professionali dell'uomo non offrono supporti a quest'ultima pista, in apparenza la più promettente. Ma forse il grigio impiegato non era poi così prevedibile nella quotidianità delle proprie azioni: si scopre infatti che il vecchio padre disabile.

Frühjahr 1943. In Reykjavík herrscht eine angespannte Stimmung - Island ist von den Amerikanern besetzt. In diesen unruhigen Zeiten wird nahe einer Soldatenkneipe im Stadtzentrum ein Mann brutal erstochen. Kommissar Flóvent und sein kanadischer Kollege Thorson von der Militärpolizei nehmen die Ermittlungen auf, während Flóvent noch mit einem anderen Fall befasst ist: Eine männliche Leiche wurde am Strand der Nautholsvík-Bucht angespült. Stehen die Tode mit den Kriegsereignissen in Zusammenhang? Die Kommissare ermitteln in einem heiklen Umfeld und geraten dabei selbst in Gefahr.

Akcja zostala osadzona w Warszawie lat 20. Komisarz Jan Warecki jest doswiadczonym funkcjonariuszem policji, który cieszy sie uznaniem i dobra opinia wspólpracowników. Pewnego dnia otrzymuje telefon od nieznanej kobiety. Czy, aby jej pomóc narazi swoja reputacje na szwank i, czy uda mu sie wyjsc calo z opresji? Miara sukcesu podobno jest liczba wrogów, Warecki ma jednego, wyjatkowo zajadlego - swojego podwladnego, wywiadowce Rypsa.

Lige før politiets internering i september 1944, bliver en kendt københavnsk filmmand likvideret. Han havde nazistiske sympatier, men en betjent, som undslipper tyskerne, arbejder videre med en anden teori.

Venezia 1902. Dalla sommità del campanile di San Marco un ragazzo viene spinto nel vuoto e si schianta tra i turisti in piazza. Le indagini sono affidate a un commissario di polizia, Guido Bordin molto capace, sebbene tormentato da profondi problemi esistenziali. Ben presto tra assassino e commissario nasce una sfida, una caccia all'uomo attraverso la città in cui i ruoli di preda e predatore talvolta si invertono. Ma cosa spinge Pfenner a questi omicidi? Cosa si nasconde dietro l'inquietudine di Bordin?

London, 1888. Though the beautiful Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband’s assistant, she is still confident of her acquittal. But then, she is sentenced to hang. She blames her husband, but he has an alibi. Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray must discover what really happened at Park Lodge on 12th March, 1888, and quickly.

When the acclaimed Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, officers Juanita Diaz and Brian Fitzgerald must investigate the crime. But what they find is much more gruesome than they ever could have imagined. Suspicion soon falls on a tight-knit circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, and Diaz and Fitzgerald must traverse the city, from Chinatown's underworld to Spanish Harlem's gangland, to find the truth. Did one of the artists' bizarre parlor games turn deadly? Or is there something even more sinister afoot?

Estate 1808. Nel caldo soffocante l'esercito napoleonico occupa la Prussia e tenta di mettere le mani sulla sua ricchezza più grande: l'ambra. Ma una maledizione sembra calare sulle raccoglitrici della preziosa resina, donne forti e splendide che cadono sotto i colpi di un assassino efferato e maniacale. Mentre i loro corpi, lasciati nudi e stranamente mutilati sulle spiagge del Baltico, sembrano comporre un oscuro disegno, spetta di nuovo a Stiffeniis, il detective allievo di Kant, affrontare l'ignoto, e un pericolo più vicino di quanto lui stesso possa immaginare.